It's my last day today and I'm already alittle sad, but it is starting to feel like it's time to go home. I've made some great new friends - both human and feline - so the time has been well spent.
It was slightly cooler yesterday, overcast for the most part, not sure what Thursday will bring. Have already said goodbye to some of the staff. As they 'volunteer' there are only 2-3 people that are in every day, the others work a rota. Lia, the boss was out in the archeological ruins yesterday and at the end of the day she said "I have never seen the ruins to clean and tidy in 14 years, John, you done wonderful job" Ah, it warms to cockles of your heart to know I may have found my vocation... picking up litter :+}
Baloo is looking to be picking up and abit more perky the last couple of days. One of the volunteers, Elise, has said she will keep an eye on him, and Maria, for me and let me know how they get on. Maria is the cute black-and-white cat with the big eyes. She is the one who has recently had the tumours removed and they are waiting on the biopsy back on them. Hmm, guess the jury is out on that one until we know one way or another.
I re-registered yesterday for a new a new cat to adopt-at-a-distance, with Tomistocles going to New York in July, I've picked Braille, a little blind white and ginger cat. Very sweet, with a nice temperament.
I heard something scary yesterday, one of the visitors was asking about kitten season and what was it like. Keith was saying it was busy and infuriating, the fact that the Vatican says 'all cats should be free to live' and doesn't promote sterilisation. He said the Pope should have been down at the sanctuary last year when they got 18 kittens in and had to remove one, or both, of the eyes, of ALL of them, after they had got infected... something that could have been treated with 20 cents worth of antibiotics! As most cat owners know young kittens tend to get eye infections, something easily treatable if caught in time. With the rescued kittens being brought in they are usually past the point of treatment.
A sobering thought to end on and now you know why I wanted to come here and why the work these guys do is so important to the Rome cat population.
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